Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications Applied Mechanics, Vibration Control, and Numerical Analysis

Part I. Analytical Nonlinearity.- Chapter 1. Steady-State Vehicle Dynamics.- Chapter 2. On the Razi Acceleration.- Chapter 3. Challenges in Exact Response of Piecewise Linear Vibration Isolator.- Chapter 4. Active Vibration Control for Nonlinear Axially Translating Cable Systems of Multi-Dimensions.- Chapter 5. Nonlinear Initial Value Ordinary Differential Equations.- Chapter 6. The Loss Tangent of Visco-Elastic Models.- Part II. Practical Nonlinearity.- Chapter 7. Optimization of Hood Design to Minimize Pedestrian Head Injury in Impact.- Chapter 8. Post Buckling Large Diameter Thin Walled Tubes.- Chapter 9. Exhaust System Acoustic Modeling.- Chapter 10. Nonlinear Approaches in Three Dimensional Medical Image Registration.- Chapter 11. Pose Estimation of a Dioptric Imaging Sensor with a Circle-Projecting Collimated Laser Moving Inside a Pipeline.- Chapter 12. Analysis of Tide Gauge Sea Level Time Series.